Contanimation TV · Issue 01 · 2026
Epic and ridiculous in equal parts.
Synopsis
Don Quixote and Sancho ride across the fields of Criptana. Quixote holds forth on honour and good manners with a tongue as sharp as his sword; Sancho, half asleep on his donkey, only thinks about the wages he's been promised.
When Quixote spots a row of windmills, he sees in them Pandafilando of the Frowning Look and an army of giants placed there by the wizard Frestón to mock God and His creation. He charges, convinced he is fighting the battle that will save the world.
What the audience first sees as a Homeric feat is revealed, blade by blade, as the most ridiculous and painful beating ever filmed.
120 shots, 12 weeks, 10 people.
Characters
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Don Quijote
A wiry man in his fifties, with an armoured idealism. He speaks with a tongue as sharp as his sword and turns every humiliation into composure. He doesn't lie: he truly sees what he says he sees.
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Sancho Panza
He nods off on his donkey, oblivious, and only wakes up to ask, with no pressure, when he'll be paid. Eyes open and without a shred of poetry, he sees exactly what is there: windmills, for grinding wheat.
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Rocinante
Quixote's horse.
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El Rucio
Sancho's donkey.
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Pandafilando de la Fosca Vista
The giant Quixote sees in the windmills, placed there by the wizard Frestón.
Frames
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Credits
- Directed by
- Guillermo Miranda & Javier De la Chica Soriano
- Written by
- Javier De la Chica Soriano & Álex Rey
- Assistant Director & Storyboard
- Víctor Ponce Trinidad
- Art Direction
- Javier De la Chica Soriano
- AI Animation
- Javier De la Chica Soriano
- Music
- Carlos Bonito
- Editing & Sound
- Guillermo Miranda
- Assistant Editor
- Miguel Galván
- Voices
- Arturo Liberos Guillen & Juan Rabadán Valls
- Operations
- Mercedes Santalla
- Technical consultant
- Nekodificador
- Executive Producers
- Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Jose Florido & Ángela Sarria
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